Horse-collar and pad



(No Model.)

F. 0. KRIEGE R. HORSE COLLAR AND PAD.

No.,565,757. Patented Aug. 11 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIO (l. KRIEGER, OF WEST BEND, VISCONSIV.

I HORSE-COLLAR AND PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,757, dated August11, 1896.-

Application filed February 3, 1896- Serial No. 577,847. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIC O. KRIEGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of West Bend, in the county of Washington and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Oollars and Pads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has special reference to a construction which enables thepads to be readily and quickly applied to the collar when needed and aseasily removed without calling in the aid of a harness-maker or otherperson skilled in the art; and it consists in certain peculiarities ofconstruction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forthhereinafter and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a horse-collar andpads embodying my invention, portions of the figure being broken away orin section to better illustrate details of construction. Figs. 2 and 3are detail views drawn to an enlarged scale, Fig. 2 being a horizontalsectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 3, with the lacing-cordomitted.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a horse-collar of a generalconstruction similar to those in common use and having fiat creases abetween the after-wale b and fore-Wale a. Each crease a is provided witha series of tubular rivets d d, passed therethrough and clenched orspread, so as to secure them in place and form threading-tubes.

B B represent the pads, which are reduced in thickness along their frontedges and then shaped so as to conform to the contour of the creasesbetween the two wales of the collar, these reduced portions 6 of thepads being likewise provided. with threading-tubes f, preferably formedalso of hollow rivets clenched and secured to place upon the pads andregistering in location with the just-described threading-tubes in thecollar.

0 0 represent the lacing-cords preferably employed.

The operation of my invention will be readily apparent from theforegoing description of its construction taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings.

When it is desired to secure the pads to the collar, the former are (oneat a time) brought to the proper places so that the describedthreadingtubes in both of the parts exactly coincide in line, and thenthe lacingcords O are passed in and out through said tube from one endof the device to the other, and the article is ready for use as a paddedcollar. WVhen it is not necessary to use pads, the cords O are asreadily unlaced as they were laced, and hence by. my invention a paddedcollar can be converted into a plain one, or vice versa, with thegreatest ease and without loss of time.

While my invention in its entirety is designed for newly-manufacturedcollars and pads, it is applicable to those now in use, and the creasesfor the hames in such collars and the forward edges of the pads may bepunched through and supplied with tubular rivets, as shown and describedhereinbefore.

My said invention forms a very simple and yet secure device, and isabsolutely free from the dangers of breakage and misplacement incidentto the employment of extraneous devices for securing the pads to thecollars.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a horse-collar having its creases provided withseries of threadingtubes, of independent removable and restorable padswhose front edges are similarly provided with series of such tubes,adapted to exactly register with those that pass through thecollar-creases, and a lacing-cord for engagement with both series ofthreading-tubes. In testimony that I claimthe foregoing I have hereuntoset my hand, at West Bend, in the county of Washington and Stateof,Wiscousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERIG C. KRIEGER.

